{"id":143218,"date":"2021-02-17T17:06:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=143218"},"modified":"2021-02-17T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T02:43:26","slug":"report-military-members-resisting-getting-covid-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-military-members-resisting-getting-covid-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Military members resisting getting COVID vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-military-members-resisting-getting-covid-vaccination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=143218&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2374480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2374480\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2374480 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1225972258-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 9: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper testify during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on July 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Esper and Milley were scheduled to testify about the role of the Department of Defense in civilian law enforcement. Active duty troops aided local law enforcement around the country at protests last month in the wake of George Floyd&#039;s death. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2374480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JULY 9: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper testify during a House Armed Services Committee hearing. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:15 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, February 17, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>According to testimony by military leaders before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday, troops are putting off receiving the coronavirus vaccine. Members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcs.mil\/\">Joint Chiefs<\/a> told Congress around two-thirds of service members have been vaccinated, but some refused the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2021-02-17\/thousands-of-service-members-saying-no-to-covid-19-vaccine\">reports<\/a>, officials said refusal rates varied and depended on factors like age, location and deployment status. Commanders said they worked hard to make sure troops could operate in a COVID environment before vaccines were available.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2374482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2374482\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2374482 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1231207792.jpg\" alt=\"Medical workers load syringes with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to be administered by nurses at a vaccination site at Kedren Community Health Center, in South Central Los Angeles, California on February 16, 2021. (Photo by Apu GOMES \/ AFP) (Photo by APU GOMES\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2374482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical workers load syringes with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to be administered by nurses at a vaccination site at Kedren Community Health Center, in South Central Los Angeles, California on February 16, 2021. (Photo by Apu GOMES \/ AFP) (Photo by APU GOMES\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t precisely know why an individual has not received a vaccine,\u201d Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro, Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Director for Operations, said. \u201cWe think it\u2019s important that this department continues to communicate to our service members the value of the vaccine, the safety of the vaccine with continued leadership involvement to help our service members understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One commander said vaccines aren\u2019t mandatory yet, but will likely become mandatory as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/mattress-mack-opens-texas-furniture-stores-as-shelters-amid-storm\/\">\u2018Mattress Mack\u2019 Opens Texas Furniture Stores As Shelters Amid Storm<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181215,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1225972258-655x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Military members resisting getting COVID vaccination","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1225972258-655x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Military members resisting getting COVID vaccination","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}